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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...

Tags: Engineering, JUST LIKE, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, Ontological, G Wells, Tim, inventor, natural language processing, algorithm

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Additional Resources

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails dailyMost embarrased male in UK now... is"Orange customer, Colin Wells – Workshop Foreman for Stagecoach buses – has the most spammed UK inbox and ClearMyMail blocks more than 44,000 emails from entering Wells’ inbox every day, amounting to around 16 million every...

Tags: E-mail, Colin Wells, U.K, spam email

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

U.K's most spammed person receives 44,000 spam emails daily

When you get so much spam that your anti-spam provider decides to use you in a marketing campaign, your spam problem turns into an asset for the community, and researchers running honeypots can only envy you for the sample of spam emails you receive on a daily basis. According to...

Tags: Orange PCS, Internet Service Provider, U.K, Spam Email, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...

Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay

Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...

Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?

I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...

Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Email is the enemy

I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Mac Time Machine: backup for the rest of us?

Time Machine really works. But is it the best backup tool for you? Perhaps not. Here's what you need to know. Easiest backup on the planet One you are running OS X 10.5, setting up Time Machine couldn't be easier. Plug in a USB drive and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Time Machine, TM, System Disk, Backups, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Scam calls... something we've forgot about?

Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Pretty sure they can...but why would they? Less money for the phone company, more cost. Until our government makes stronger, more punishing laws around this, nothing will happen.-NateRE: Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Why can't the phone companies trace these calls and shut...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Call centers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, PLA, malware, call-center, phone, IP

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

(Photos: Phoenix lands on Mars)

(Photos: Phoenix lands on Mars)phoenix landing on marsthat is just so damn amazing.RE: (Photos: Phoenix lands on Mars)seems like a pretty boring place.....RE: (Photos: Phoenix lands on Mars)WOW!! This is a great happening- now if the water is water as we know it, any lifeforms found will be interesting. It...

Tags: Phoenix Technologies, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Malware pain for my users

Malware pain for my usersI agree wholeheartedlyPeople always ask me if linux will be ready for the desktop, or rather, if this is the year of the linux desktop. I usually respond with a 'hope not.' I'm one of a few avid linux enthusiasts who like linux the...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Port 22, malware, Linux, SSH, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Vipre Antivirus Antispyware (beta)

Photo gallery:Vipre Antivirus Antispyware betaIt takes guts to introduce a brand-new antivirus solution in a crowded market, but Sunbelt Software, known best for its award-winning CounterSpy antispyware, is doing just that by creating its own antivirus engine from the ground up. Arriving late has advantages, however. Traditional antivirus engines have...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, wizard, Vipre Antivirus Antispyware, Sunbelt Software, antivirus, anti-spyware

Product reviews 2008-03-11

From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech

Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...

Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-04

XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark

XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmarkI wonderOf those games, how many are optimized for DirectX 10?sigh . . ."Well, XP SP2 is still the better OS when it comes to gaming. ". . . except there's no DirectX 10.When I look at the scores, it's really...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, Anandtech, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, game, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

Salesforce.com: Why the model is working

Salesforce.com reported strong fiscal fourth quarter results and indicated that it is notching some wins against the large software vendors. Why are things falling in line for Salesforce.com? First the numbers, Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of 6 cents a share on revenue of $216.9 million, up...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer-relationship Management Software, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearing

Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearingAll the more reason comcast deserves a fine..NOW they are trying to skew the public meetings setup...that is BEYOND low...as Mr. OU has quoted me being out for COMCAST blood...well i'm even more so now. This is the type of corporate...

Tags: Federal government, Comcast Corp., FCC

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Surveillance society needs privacy safeguards

Surveillance society needs privacy safeguardsMessage has been deleted.How can people expect privacy on a public street?This whole hullabaloo must be coming from city dwellers. Country and small-town people don't expect to go out on the street and not be recognized.Anonymity, perhaps, is a better term for what they're trying to...

Tags: privacy safeguard, surveillance society, privacy

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?

Southern California Edison: Why not keep your options open?Wellconsidering that water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and the major product of hydrogen fuel cells is water, I guess you could argue that killing the hydrogen economy is a good thing.And don't tell me that water...

Tags: environmentalist, hydrogen, global warming, Southern California Edison

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Skyfire: a true liberator for the mobile Web

 While I am not at the DEMO conference in Indian Wells, Calif., I am present virtually. Among the many interesting new product announcements I have received concerns a new mobile browser from a company called Skyfire. Skyfire's announcement at DEMO is not an...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Web Browser, Skyfire, Mobile Browser, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-29